Bombay Balchão
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Bombay Balchão
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Narrated by:
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Meher Acharia Dar
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Written by:
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Jane Borges
About this listen
Bombay was the city everyone came to in the early decades of the 19th century: among them, the Goans and the Mangaloreans, looking for safe harbour, livelihood, and a new place to call home. Communities congregated around churches and markets, sharing lord and land with the native East Indians. The young among them were nudged on to the path of marriage, procreation and godliness, though noble intentions were often ambushed by errant love and plain and simple lust. As in the story of Annette and Benji (and Joe) or Michael and Merlyn (and Ellena).
Lovers and haters, friends and family, married men and determined singles, churchgoers and abstainers, Bombay Balchão is a tangled tale of ordinary lives of a woman who loses her husband to a dockyard explosion and turns to bootlegging, a teen romance that drowns like a paper boat, a social misfit rescued by his addiction to crosswords, a wife who tries to exorcise the spirit of her dead mother-in-law from her husband, a rebellious young woman who spurns true love for the abandonment of dance. Ordinary, except when seen through their own eyes. Then, it's legend.
Set in Cavel, a tiny Catholic neighbourhood on Bombay's D'Lima Street, this delightful debut novel is painted with many shades of history and memory, laughter and melancholy, sunshine and silver rain.
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- Richa Sharma
- 20-08-21
Loved this story!
This will be definitely a book I'll be recommending to everyone. The story is really engrossing, peppered with descriptions of food and wine and how communities are tied together. Good narration as well.
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- Ruchika Singh
- 25-02-22
Cavel & it's extraordinary story
What a book!! A wonderful book to see Bombay turning into Mumbai and it's people. A peaceful & yet interesting listen for not so productive days of one.
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- Tahoora Hashmi
- 18-09-22
Interesting read!
I was not expecting much but I was surprised on how well it was written
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- NEETU
- 03-11-22
Bombay balchao
A joyful read... great book! highly recommended...An easy breezy story... memorable characters... very nice 👌A heartwarming book...
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- Suhasa
- 08-07-24
An underrated gem
Simple, delightful and lovely stories of the residents of Bosco Mansion (Bombay) in different times, different situations and different mindsets.
Each of the 12 stories is an account of an incident or connected incidents happening with one of the families in the Bosco Mansion and is interconnected with one another in some way. When you put it all together you get a sense of the overall story and the things that each character has been through.
My favourite chapter is the letter exchange between Michael and Ellena. There are many other amusing and heart-warming (and sometimes heartbreaking) ones like the one with exorcism, The Water Fiasco, A Friend Called Joe and the final titular chapter.
A fun and fast read which leaves you wanting more, you don't want to leave Michael or Ellena or Annette or Mario alone. You want to hear more of their stories. Also the audiobook narration by Meher Acharia Dar is lovely and on point. Her tone changes according to the emotion of the story were impeccable. Her accents and the sarcastic tone were really hilarious.
Here's hoping a little that there comes a sequel with more stories (however improbable it is)....
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- Lyeon
- 22-07-21
just the right recipe
The book is just the right recipe and brings the nostalgia of bygone days. very well written and narrated. thanx for the wonderful experience.
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- Reena Nandi
- 10-01-23
Took me Back to my Childhood Days In Santa Cruz.
this is exactly how my neighborhood was, every character was so similar to someone I knew. Well written well narrated 💜
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- Pindiga
- 09-03-23
memorable
it was a memorable one. both the performance and the story. thank you very much
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-09-22
Terrible narration
Meher doesn't narrate, she reads the book aloud like a 10 year old at a school's elocution competition, in the 80's. Couldn't get through more than 5 mins.
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